Breakwater

With its sun-soaked, sensual images, “Quebramar” reveals a very talented director of photography as well as director. Cris Lyra manages to capture the group’s energy, for example during the drawing session where, lying on the sand, they all express themselves with their unique, non-stereotypical, beautiful bodies. This complicity between the women filmed as well as the director’s perfect positioning put viewers right in the middle of the free-flowing conversation, the serene intimacy that’s as sweet and gentle as the lyrics of one of the songs played by the fireside, “Let feelings flourish/And they’ll make you grow.” There’s the joy of being together but also of moving forward in unison, healing wounds and learning to love oneself. A salutary and glowing countershot of Jair Bolsonaro’s violent, homophobic Brazil.

Éva Tourrent
Filmmaker and Tënk France's Artistic Director